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WORKSHOP, CLASSIC WORKSHOP, AND LECTURE INFORMATION

Structure of every regular workshop:

— Each week for six weeks video lectures will be available for the writer to listen and watch in their own time. (Video lectures will be about 4 to 7 or so minutes long each and there will be about six or so of them per week depending on topic.)

— Each week will include an assignment which will need to be sent as an attached file within five days. We will work personally with each writer or book designer, and send the assignments back to each person before the end of the week. (The assignments are not mandatory, but suggested to get the most out of each workshop.)

— Then each week we will record a short (5 minutes or so) video talking in general (never giving names) about the assignment for everyone in the class to watch. Then the following week’s assignment and lectures will be available.

— Each new video will be released on the same day of the week as the first one for six weeks. So if the workshop starts on Tuesday, the new weekly video sessions will be released every Tuesday.

— Once you are signed up for a workshop, you can come back over the years to review at any point you want.

CLASSIC WORKSHOP STRUCTURE

— The classic workshops used to be regular workshops, but you can sign up for them, and go through all the videos as fast as you would like. All six weeks are there. The homework assignments are still there, as well as some of the responses from a previous workshop, but you do not send in any assignments. You just do them for yourself. And you can come back over the years as often as you want without any extra costs.

Cost of online workshops is $300.00 each. (Payment instructions either on Teachable or through Dean. Instructions below.)

Cost of Classic online workshops is $150.00 each. (Payment instructions when you buy the workshop on teachable.com.)

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NO REFUNDS. However, your money can be moved to a different workshop down the road if you have schedule or health problems. We will work with you.

My e-mail address for these workshops is dean.wmgworkshops@gmail.com. Please put only WORKSHOPS in the subject line. Or if I do not respond, please try again. I try to respond fairly quickly, meaning within the same day, two at most.

A List of All Regular Monthly Workshops (no real order)

Depth in Writing (Start with this one. It is offered every month.) Advanced Depth Writing into the Dark Teams in FictionInformation FlowNovel Structure EndingsAuthor Voice Dialogue (Advanced Character and Dialogue)Character DevelopmentWriting Fantasy Writing Mystery Point of View Writing Secondary Plot Lines Research (Depth #3) Writing Short Stories How to Edit Your Own Work Writing Sales Copy Speed The Business of WritingThink Like a PublisherMagic Bakery

These fifteen workshops will jump you so far ahead in your writing skills, you won’t be able to see it, but your friends and readers will. And I know, interesting that Teams workshop is the 4th most important, but trust me, it is a foundation course and important.

Don’t worry about the Advanced Character title in the Dialog workshop. It was just a name that got stuck on it to help people understand it.

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MORE CRAFT-FOCUSED COURSES (Depth suggested for all of them except Ideas)

BUSINESS FOCUSED COURSES

Don’t even think of starting into these workshops without first getting Lecture #1 Heinlein’s Rules. Or read my blog posts or get my book. Also, you might want to do Lecture #12… Stages of a Fiction Writer.

GENRE FOCUSED COURSES

The mystery workshop in this area can be used in most genres. Might want to take it even though you have no thoughts of being a mystery writer. Genre structure will help you figure out where to tag and list your books when putting them out for sale.

Feel free to write me with any questions on any of the workshops at dean.wmgworkshops@gmail.com

I took three of your courses several years ago. I see that InDesign has made some changes. Do you have updates to your “Creating an InDesign Template: Interior” and “Covers” documents that are available to a past registrant?